This Woman Highlights Her Unique Birthmark By Turning It Into a Glittery Masterpiece

Paige Billiot wants the world to know that birthmarks are, in fact, beautiful. The 24-year-old model has a port-wine stain that stretches across half her face, and instead of hiding — which she's done for much of her youth — she's celebrating her birthmark by turning it into a colorful and glittery masterpiece.

Billiot's been filling in her birthmark with all kinds of different colors since she launched Flawless Affect, a campaign that "showcases participants' flaws in a new and beautiful light." The photography project plays with the power of perception: Imperfections become distorted into something beautiful. Different, she writes on the project's site, is the new normal. Her latest campaign with Curvy Kate, a lingerie line that embraces every and any type of female body, features Billiot's birthmark front and center, lit up with rose-gold glitter.

But she regularly colors in her birthmark on her own. The colors are all dependent on what she feels that day — sparkly teal, orange, charcoal and pink are all recent go-tos that Billiot has used to enhance and illustrate her birthmark. That's not to say that she doesn't rock a bare face from time to time. After all, Billiot wrote in an Instagram post, acceptance is everything: "Bow down to every imperfection and realize that it's what makes you perfect."

She wrote on Tumblr that her mission is to "give people a creative avenue to shed light on their 'flaws.'" If we've learned anything from Billiot, we know that "flaws" is in quotations marks for a darn good reason.